Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

12.

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

13.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

14.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

16.

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

17.

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

18.

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

19.

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

20.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

21.

A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

22.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

23.

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

24.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

25.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

26.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

27.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

28.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

29.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

30.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

31.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

32.

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

33.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

35.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

36.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

37.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

38.

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

39.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

40.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

41.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

42.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

43.

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

44.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

45.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

46.

This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

47.

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

48.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

49.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

50.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.